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[edit] Stubs

Before you create any New Jersey stubs, you should visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals to propose the new stubs. The general criteria for creating a stub is that there should be enough articles to make the new stub category useful, which is around 100 articles. You can start by looking at the articles that currently in Category:United States-related stubs and Category:Northeastern US geography stubs to see how many are New Jersey articles. At the bottom of Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types#North and Central America, there is also a list of other stubs that might also have more New Jersey articles. You might also look for various New Jersey list articles (see Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Lists for a list of California lists), and count the number of red-linked articles that could easily be turned into stubs. The New Jersey article also has a bunch of red-linked community colleges. BlankVerse ∅ 22:04, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Good point! I haven't created any stubs yet and I was using the stubs proposed in the WikiProject Massachusets page that I had copied as a template. I am very carefully researching the stub issue and won't do anything until I'm confident that I have the issue under control. Right now, WP:NJ is in more of a requirements definition phase than a development mode. Thanks again for the guidance. Alansohn 23:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] To Infobox or not to Infobox?

The project page speaks of Template:Infobox Town NJ. I lean opposed to infoboxes that do not add new data, especially on the Rambot (t c) created pages for CDPs, municipalities, counties, etc. They all have a distinct style, and if you have seen one, you know where to look for data in the others. For an example of what adding an infobox can do to the flow of an article, see these revisions of Bergen County when Template:US County infobox was added: [1] [2]. I'm not saying that we definitely should not add an infobox for towns, but rather that we should not do so lightly. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 22:22, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

I actually think that all the basic data, such as date of incorporation, population, name of mayor, area, and other information we gather for every single town, should be in infoboxes rather than buried in the prose. IMHO, the prose sections should be prose, rather than just recital of dry facts. --Leifern 18:56, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I don't see why we couldn't do this. There are a number of infoboxes floating around on the New Jersey municipality pages (I use one at my hometown model page at Teaneck, New Jersey) and there's no reason we couldn't get a consistent format and content on a statewide basis, providing basic information regarding each municipality. Alansohn
Another example of a municipality infobox can be found on the article about Oppdal (where I was born); this is the infobox used for all 465 municipalities in Norway, and I think they're all populated now. --Leifern 20:03, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
I like the infobox idea, too, especially for Leifern's 2005-12-07 18:59 comment's reasons. //MrD9 05:42, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
If we are to use an infobox, I think we should create an NJ-specific template off of an existing infobox. A NJ town infobox could include specific callouts to the items in the NJmunigov infobox. --ishu 00:59, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Maps

State legislative districts, defined 2001, colored as per 2004/2005 state senate representative
State legislative districts, defined 2001, colored as per 2004/2005 state senate representative

I've been working on maps of NJ state and federal representation districts. Here is one of the maps, please comment. SVG source will be uploaded once the image is finalized.

Particular items I would like clarification on are:

  1. District 28 has two unconnected sections. Is this confusing? How should it be addressed?
  2. Are numberings of districts clear in general?
  3. Is the name of the map file appropriate? Senate seats are only for the 2004/2005 session?
  4. What is a sufficient image size to upload? This one is 1024x1448.
  5. Any data errors?

Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:02, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

The map is fine.

  1. District 28 is not confusing to me.
  2. The numbering of districts are quite clear (to me, a New Jerseyanite). However, it would help if Districts 22, 20, 31, 29, 28, 27, 32, 34, 36, 33, 37, 38 and 35 were part of a blown-up map (to avoid confusion)
  3. The name is appropriate. This map should be updated after elections. (which one I do not know)
  4. I had a hard time seeing the smaller districts (possible solution above) on the WP:NJ page. Either the whole map can be larger (slower loading speed) or there can be an enlarged portion.
  5. I believe there are no data errors.

I would like to become involved in this project as I am interested in my home state.

Kevin Hanse 13:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)(talk)

Kevin, thanks for your input. When you click on the image and then select the image on the resulting page, you will get a full-size version (1024x1448). Is this still too small? Or would you prefer a blown-up portion of the map in its own image that can be thumbnailed and still legible? BTW, you can sign your username with ~~~~. You can customize this via preferences to include a link to your talk page. Also, please don't edit other people's comments or user pages, even to fix typos. Thanks. I look forward to your contributions to New Jersey-related articles. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 16:17, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Following up on the earlier discussion, I agree that an inset to show the much smaller districts in northeastern New Jersey would help make this a far more useful map than the original version. Kevin, we welcome you to Wikipedia and encourage your participation on WP:NJ. Alansohn 16:58, 7 November 2005 (UTC)


as per 2001 redistricting
as per 2001 redistricting
detail of northeastern portion
detail of northeastern portion

Thanks for the input, all. I've added two images to the New Jersey Legislature page based on this. They are reproduced here for comment. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 18:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)


The new map inset is very good, thank-you ChrisRuvolo.


A request, next time you make these maps (EG. After this coming election), can you make the districts solid-color? IMAO this would look better. Or have you tried this and it came out awful? 68.39.174.238 03:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Celebs in WP:NJ?

Someone has added the WP:NJ template to the talk pages of several celbrities from New Jersey. I'm not sure there is really anything for WP:NJ to do in these cases.. the people are not directly related to the state. They are not a public official, nor are they identified with the state any more. I suggest we remove the template from them. WP:NJ may include pages about people, particularly government figured identified with the state, but celebrities? I don't think so. Comments? --ChrisRuvolo (t) 00:31, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

  • I guess if they are relevant enough they would fall under part of the "Culture of New Jersey" side of WP:NJ. AndyZ 14:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NJ resident userbox for user pages

This user lives in the state of New Jersey.

For those of you that are NJ residents, take a look at this userbox template you can add to your user page. It also adds people to the category Category:Wikipedians in New Jersey. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 13:51, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion of local politicians

There's recently been a discussion on the WP mailing list that seems to be converging on a consensus that every local politician in the world ("from the dog catcher up") should be prepared to have an entry in WP. This will make it a lot of fun to distinguish between all the John Smiths, etc. I'm not going to make it a priority to write an article on school board members, etc., but we can certainly put their names in brackets in case someone feels moved to write an article on Fred Profeta, or whatever. --Leifern 18:52, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks again for your most thoughtful input here, and on Wikipedia in general. I thing for the most part I agree. As I stated elsewhere, I had a very contentions VfD on a page for a Freeholder from Passaic County, New Jersey (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Gallagher2 for the ultimately successful debate). While Passaic has about 500,000 residents, Millburn, New Jersey has about 20,000. There are 21 counties statewide, so there would be about 150 Freeholder pages in New Jersey. With 566 municipalities there could be 3,000 - 4,000 pages for mayors and council members. More than that for school board members. I'm not even concerned about the number of pages or the storage capacity issues. My mind is boggled at the though of creating 8,000 - 10,000 new pages. I've been updating municipality pages (albeit singlehandedly), and it's a quite daunting task to obtain the data and wikify it for public consumption. How could we possibly get a consistent level of information for 10,000 local elected officials. Again, I'm not criticizing anyone, I'm just concerned about getting it right. Alansohn 19:13, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
It could be more when you want to include historical elections and officeholders, so I get a little anxious as well. My inclination is to not make this part of the project for now (until and unless we can simply start uploading the information through some kind of automated process and also have a naming scheme that avoids ambiguity). --Leifern 19:59, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Let us know when you get another VFD like that. I'd be sure to chime in. Also, welcome, Leifern. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:07, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Any Good High School Articles

Are there any exceptional high school articles that can be used as a base for other high schools. I have started the Shawnee High School article and it seems to be limiting information.

What is everyone's opinion on what should be included in high school articles? Here are some things that I think should definitely be included...

  • Introduction
  • School Infobox
  • History
  • Administatation
  • Athletics
  • Notable Alumni
  • External Links (link to school website)

Sharpdust 01:52, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

What would be in the Administration section? A list of the school's administrators wouldn't be particularly notable or useful. A section on academics should appear, including advanced placement classes, the District Factor Group, the latest results from the NJDOE school report card [3] should be mentioned or at least linked to. Also USDOE NCES [4] info may be useful. I don't know of any school articles that include this all of this info, but maybe others do. Hope this helps. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 03:17, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools. AndyZ 23:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ZIP Codes?

I've noticed that most (if not all) town articles do not include ZIP codes. Is there a specific reason against adding them, or is it something to consider adding to articles (or possibly something that could be added to "Infobox Template:Infobox Town NJ will be a vertical box on the top right of an article" (from WP:NJ) when it's been created)? MrD9 07:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Some towns/cities have many zip codes. Others share a zip code with other municipalities. Zip codes don't always follow town borders. I think doing this accurately and completely would be on the excessive side. However, there is a place where this information is appropriate IMO: List of ZIP Codes in New Jersey. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 15:26, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comma Comment

I've been looking through a lot of NJ pages over the past few days, and I've noticed that there appear to be recurring missing commas in the first sentences of many articles (and in other places in them). Obviously it's nothing to search pages trying to correct, nor am I trying to make a point out of it other than posting this for future reference for those who are interested:

  • Towns and States: A comma is required after the state when used in a sentence. Trenton, New Jersey, <<< is the capital of New Jersey. Wildwood, NJ, <<< is in Cape May County.
  • Years: When writing out full dates in words with a month, day, and year, a comma must go after the year in most cases. ex: The new law passed on December 10, 2005, <<< made it illegal to.... Better example: January 9, 1960, <<< is Susan's birthday.
  • Commas with Quotes: Standard written American English (although Wikipedia is not limited to just the US, NJ is located there) provides for commas and periods to be placed inside closing quotes, while semi-colons go outside. Quesiton marks go inside if part of the quote or outside if not. ex: "I like New Jersey," Bob said, "more than any other state." (not ... Jersey", Bob... state".)

Again, I do not mean to criticize anyone or anything--in fact, I was amazed when I found WP:NJ and pages for much of the state a few weeks ago (and thank you to all of you for creating them)--especially because I am new, but I just thought I'd mention this. MrD9 08:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

I disagree: In the first example you provided, by adding a comma "trenton, NJ" is no longer the subject of the sentence. It is correct without the comma after NJ. The second example is also incorrect; putting a comma after 2005 again is gramatically incorrect, since you're leaving the sentence without a subject. It is like saying: "The new law, made it illegal." instead of "The new law made it illegal." The third example you provided is correct; it was probably a typo by the user who typed it in.AndyZ 14:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey wait a minute, you are correct! (at least according to Comma (punctuation)). If that is the case, a lot of articles do need to be corrected... AndyZ 14:55, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Many people, don't follow this rule. Yoda, they would speak like. Time, let us not waste it. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 15:22, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Again, I was just pointing this out for awareness--I was not in any way trying to correct people or to force anyone to do anything. Howerver, this is not the same as using a comma after every subject. It is simply that years, states, countires, ... technically should be set off by commas. New Jersey has many people, but Teterboro, New Jersey, does not. MrD9 18:29, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Recently, one of the other projects I'm a member of received a message from a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. They recently began assessing using these criteria, and are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. I already put History of New Jersey on the list. But I figured I'd mention it here anycase anyone else can recommend any suitable articles? Check it out here. --ZeWrestler Talk 18:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move of three Passaic County municipalities

Please comment on Talk:Little Falls Township, New Jersey about the following requested moves:

Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 13:25, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE: Moves complete. Passaic county municipalities correctly named. //MrD9 06:02, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] George Gill Green

Please help save the biography of New Jersey native George Gill Green. He has been tagged for deletion because he is not considered notable. Is it possible that another New Jersey person will deleted from history? Again people are doing a Google search and basing their vote on whether he has been written about by others. With this attitude no new information will be transfered from print to electronic media. Arise! --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 22:14, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What makes a cemetery notable?

Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield has been proposed for deletion. It contains a Governor on New Jersey. Do you think that a cemetery should only be listed if it has at least two notable burials? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 22:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jr. and Sr. - comma or no comma?

I wanted to mention (half of you probably saw it already via your watchlists to some extent) that I sort of went on a rampage just now changing as many NJ-related names with "Jr." or "Sr." in them to not have commas. Therefore, Thomas Kean, Jr. became Thomas Kean Jr.. I did this for two main reasons:

  • The comma is falling out of disfavor, and logic, Chicago proof, and Strunk/White (Elements of Style) all support not having the comma.
  • Half of the articles said stuff like "Thomas Kean, Jr. is involved in politics." The comma freak that I am, this is wrong (look at my Chicago proof link above), as there should be a comma after Jr., too, in this case, becuase it's being used as nonrestrictive. Rather than correc this, I figured I'd just get rid of them (and, like I said, logic suggests that the Jr. is restrictive (aka no commas) because Jr. and Sr. are two different people.)

I hope this isn't a big deal, but it just seems more fitting, and I think it looks better. One other thing to keep in mind is that when doing it in reverse name order, use the comma. Kean, Thomas, Jr., not Kean Jr., Thomas. //MrD9 04:43, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I'd suggest this be brought up at Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles). I'm not sure there is a policy on this yet, and if you feel strongly about it, perhaps it should become policy. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 13:03, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I had also tried to go through the Wikipedia Manual of Style, and I was quite surprised to find no clear policy on how to handle suffixes (Jr. , Sr. III, etc.) in names in general and particularly in the titles of articles. Among some notables who meet this criteria are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Albert Gore, Sr., where in both cases the article title does include the comma. (Al Gore is a junior, but chooses not to go by his full name, a la Bill Clinton and Thomas Kean, so that doesn't provide any evidence either way). I have always leant towards use of the comma as a separator (including a comma after the nonrestrictive Jr. when preceded by a comma), but I recognize that the Chicago Manual of Style and Strunk & White are strong arguments for the alternative. I would suggest that this issue be raised as a Manual of Style issue and that any existing pages remain as is until we have more definiitive Wikipedia consensus for elimination of the comma. Alansohn 13:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I have seen it both ways on Wikipedia, and ironically, William Strunk Jr. has no comma (well, maybe it's not that ironic... I will, however, submit it to MOS (prob. tomorrow). I simply thought removing them would be much easier than trying to go thrhough them adding commas, and if anyone's strongly opposed, I'll go back and revert/remove/add-in-commas. //MrD9 23:47, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I ended up having time today, so the proposal. //MrD9 00:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Closure? The MOS page is Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)#Senior_and_junior. (A hard page to find. I did not find it via Wikipedia search or browse. I did not find it via Google search directly.) It currently prescribes adding ", Jr." (and ", Sr."), even though ordinals do NOT get commas. I found no discussion of this question over there, so I copied this topic (everything above this paragraph) to Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (people)#Jr. and Sr. - comma or no comma? ([Please don't comment further on this subject on this page; continue the discussion over there.) --Whiner01 02:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Matavan beach

Does anyone know where Matavan beach is and if it the same as Matawan, New Jersey? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 20:17, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

The USGS GNIS database [5] returns no hits. I've never heard of it. Could it be a typo? --ChrisRuvolo (t) 23:43, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
The photos are from 1915-1918. There is a town Matawan, New Jersey but they don't have a beach. The person who took the photos lived in Keansburg, New Jersey.

[edit] State Parks

Anyone who wants to help write stubs for the State Parks please join in. Don't forget to add the template to each entry: Template:New Jersey Parks. Just click on the template to see which ones are still red. Cheers. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:18, 4 March 2006 (UTC) (Link correction //MrD9 02:55, 4 March 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Lists

Borrowing the idea from Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board, perhaps it would be a good idea to "assign" members of this wikiproject a non-existant article to complete each week as an optional thing? That way, we could probably make our way through the lists covered by WP:NJ. Willing participants could perhaps take a red link from, say List of Governors of New Jersey, and create an article for the red link. Just a suggestion for those willing to do so, AndyZ 23:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I've been doing that already with school districts, high schools, governors and County routes. But a more organize New Jersey Collaboartive Effort of the Week might be more organized and productive. AndyZ, you've made the suggestion, why don't you put up a to do list that we can use as a sign-up sheet. let's see who can get the most done the fastest. Alansohn 19:50, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
I tried to jump start a New Jersey collaboration of the week, based largely on WP:USCOTW. Hopefully this will provide a systematic way to create/improve NJ-related articles. AndyZ 13:59, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I'll start adding {{subst:NJCOTW-invite}} to the user talk pages of the participants of WP:NJ; that should give NJCOTW a boost. Perhaps the topic should be changed to Templates for New Jersey counties, falling right in hand with the Template Project below on this page?
Thanks for participating in Wikiproject New Jersey. In an attempt to create articles for some of the non-existing pages related to New Jersey, NJCOTW was recently created to bring members of WP:NJ together to work collaboratively on a certain selected topic, which this week is List of Governors of New Jersey. Please help by nominating/voting/commenting on articles on WP:NJCOTW, or by helping to improve articles in the scope of the topic for the NJCOTW.
AndyZ 23:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GSP / Blue NJ road image

[blue NJ hourglass-like image. I was on the Parkway a few months ago (or in the summer?), and I saw this blue hourglass-like NJ image a few times on a few signs in about the 140-150 range, I think... I forgot about it, but I just ran across it on this website, and remembered I didn't know what it was. What is it for? I've never noticed it before whenever I saw it sometime since last summer. At first I thought it was some new Turnpike image, but I do not think it is? //MrD9 06:45, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

I think it's the logo for the Meadowlands. Darkcore 07:19, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Yep, that's the old Meadowlands logo. —chair lunch dinner™ (talk) 19:45, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Attorneys General

I see NY has a list -- List of New York State Attorneys General -- should NJ get one? -- Sholom 20:21, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Why not? //MrD9 02:18, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] County Template Project

Help complete the county templates. Just sign your name with four tildes (~~~~) to reserve a county for yourself:

--Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 17:00, 7 March 2006 (UTC)


Please view/make further related comments at /template's talk page's section for county templates. Remember to put anything that becomes "policy" on the /templates page under "Usage notes."


FYI, there is a discussion going on at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New Jersey/templates#Fair use on templates about the use of county seals in the templates. They have been removed from several of the templates already. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 03:40, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

I spent a few (actually, a lot more than that) hours over the past few days overhauling the templates section of the WP:NJ page. I liked Alansohn's listing of the templates out to verify that they were all there (which is also useful also for comparing "parallel templates" [ones that are about different things but fit the same category, such as the different county templates]). Therefore, because it is useful but becuase the main WP:NJ page was becoming a long mess of simply names of NJ legislators, I created the subpage Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/templates to be a complete enumeration of all of the NJ templates along with a display of each of them. Becuase it's not always handy to look at the main template subpage with all of the templates also displayed, I also created Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/templatelist to be a bare-bones listing of the templates. It should be in the same order as the templates on the main /templates subpage.

This bare-bones listing is going to be (as of now, obviously if you guys hate any of my changes we'll/you'll/I'll/whoever'll get rid of them) shown in the templates section of the main WP:NJ page. However, all comments/debates/questions/whatever regarding templates should be put on the /templates page (again, if I'm being too intrusive or you hate this idea, it's a quick revert). Basically, I liked the way the Manual of Style pages give each subtopic that's large its own page, and I thought this was the best way to deal with the utter mess of a templates section we had. The new /templates main template subpage will also allow for templates (such as the county ones) to be compared, or for things like legislative/congressional/senatorial templatse to be easily verified/updated.

I hope you guys like this. I think it'll work well and be productive/helpful in the long run. //MrD9 04:10, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Much needed, thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 13:44, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
One suggestion, lets change the comments sections to usage notes and move discussion to the /templates talk page. Thoughts? --ChrisRuvolo (t) 13:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Fine with me... I just wanted to make sure that there was a clear "Templates" part that listed the templates—the old templates section was a mess with mixed comments and templates and stuff that I wanted to avoid that problem—so that's what I had thought of at the time. But either change it, wait for more people to comment first, or I'll change it in a few days when I have time. //MrD9 00:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Templates located at /templates. Template general discussion located at talk:/templates.

[edit] block of User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

All, Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (t c), a WP:NJ member, has been blocked and then subsequently resigned from Wikipedia. See the discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Help needed with image uploads from one user. This is apparently over a problem with image copyrights. I find this highly irregular and outside of the usual process. Many of the images uploaded are from before 1923, so I don't understand why they are being removed in bulk. Please check all NJ-related articles for images removed by OrphanBot (t c) and re-evaluate their copyright status and source information. If the information appears valid (e.g. image from before 1923, therefore {{PD-US}}), then please re-add the image to the article(s) it was removed from. Please be sure any image tagged with {{publicity}} has a verifiable source and has a fair use rationale if you re-add it to an article. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Corrections:
  1. This user has made spurious license claims on images to which he clearly does not hold the copyright. See e.g. HeLa.jpg, or also VanWickle.jpg, to take just two. Ripping images off from other web sites and claiming they were under a free license is a very bad form of copyright violation, because it incites innocent third parties to re-use the image without even realising that they then also violate someone's copyright.
  2. As a stop-gap measure, OrphanBot has removed all his images from articles. We'll now have to go through his more than 500 uploads, check and verify the licensing, search for on-line sources outside WP, and the like. It's a mess.
  3. The user had initially been blocked indefinitely; that block was later reduced to five days. (Neither by me, I should add. I have from the beginning advocated an indef block only if he continued to upload and mistag images, which he didn't after he was warned. But since this user cannot be trusted to correctly tag an image, his not being around to help cleaning up is no great loss.)
  4. Created before 1923 is not the same as published before 1923. Only works published before 1923 are PD in the U.S. See WP:PD.
  5. All images must have a source, including PD ones! For paintings: Painter incl. birth and death dates, and as much info on the image that is available. If applicable, also URL or ISBN of book, if scanned. For photographs, one would ideally like to know the photographer, esp. if one isn't sure whether the work was published pre-1923. For things taken from other web sites, at least a URL to a page where one can get info on the image. (A link to the plain jpg source is nice, but even better is a link to the web page where the jpg is used.)
Lupo 14:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Lupo, I don't dispute that what Richard did was wrong, but to block him over it appears to be excessive. Yes, each image must be re-examined. Blocking him doesn't change that. Now we won't have any input from him to assist in the process (perhaps I'm overly optimistic that he would have been able to help there). This could have been handled much better (yes, I know it wasn't you who gave the initial blocks). There is an existing process for copyright violations. I don't think it should have been subverted just because of the volume. I am aware of the 1923 creation/publication distinction. This message was to notify others in WP:NJ more than re-hash the issues of the block. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Yup. I think, en-masse removal from the articles was maybe justified as per my point 1 above: move them to a holding pen, so that innocent bystanders don't get misled. That's all OrphanBot did, other tagging as {{subst:nsd}} or {{subst:nld}} is or will be done by human Wikipedians. I somehow felt it necessary to explain it because of your statement that you found that highly irregular. But no offense taken, and I hope I haven't given any. If I did, I hope you accept my sincere apologies. The rest of my explanations (points 4 and 5) was just to clear up subtle misunderstandings about that "pre-1923" cut-off date and the sourcing of images. Lupo 19:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Lupo, sure, no problem on my end. I do find that going outside of the usual procedures is irregular, and was surprised to find it used in this case. I hope my wariness didn't come off as taking offense (or cause you to take offense), you have been straightforward about everything involved. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Answers

2 disputed images out of 500, thats not a bad ratio. HeLa I had attributed to Johns Hopkins University which as pointed out may have been incorrect, I had solicited 6 images from researchers and may have misattributed the one I uploaded. The VanWickle.jpg image and its three sister images came from the Meadows Foundation and were used with permission as was stated in the image entry. All the images from the Meadows Foundation were taken by myself or other volunteers at the Meadows Foundation. I am still blocked at Wikicommons over this dispute. Collectively punishing all my images over a few disputed images was excessive and would violate the Geneva Convention covering Edit Wars, if such a document actually existed. All my images were orphaned, and once an image is orphaned it is automatically tagged for deletion, and auto deleted in 7-days. This was bad enough, but then blocking me from Wikipedia for life while my 500 images were being deleted was "redundant overkill". Once an image is deleted its gone for good, which punishes me and the people that took the time to scan and send me images. Please also note that none of the disputed images were listed under a free license, all were listed under the "cc-by-2.5" license with copyholder listed as "Meadows Foundation". All of which could have been cleared up with leaving me a message or asking to see an authorization letter from the Foundation.

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for review...

I've filed for peer review of the New Jersey Supreme Court @ Wikipedia:Peer review/New Jersey Supreme Court/archive2. I would request people who lurk around here to check it out and review it, etc, etc... comment... Thanx everyone. 68.39.174.238 03:30, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vote for Deletion

These are being voted on for deletion. I input the data, I think they are as valid as any other list of geographical entries. They aren't encyclopedic, they are almanacical as are all the lists in Wikipedia. My original plan was to write geographical entries for each cemetery. Please vote to save or delete. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 01:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

  • List of cemeteries in Somerset County, New Jersey
  • List of cemeteries in Middlesex County, New Jersey
  • List of cemeteries in Bergen County, New Jersey


Wow! How did we lose the vote for lists of cemeteries? I guess the list of Pokemon characters left no room for geography.
Agreed. --ZeWrestler Talk 13:48, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I was also quite disappointed to see the cemeteries gone. I hadn't realized that these articles existsed before the AfD's, and I have been creating cemetery articles, where justified. There's no valid reason that these articles should have been deleted. There is a huge pool of deletionists who will vote to delet anything that they ar unfamiliar with; all you need to do is append "-cruft" to whatever the subject is and that's enough to justify deleting a perfectly legitimate article, a la "Delete: Cemeterycruft." We need to work better together to craft more deletion-proof articles, keep an eye out for AfD's and show our aupport for decent articles that have been targeted by the rabid forces of deletionism. Alansohn 16:39, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps someone should open a deletion review for these articles. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


The geographical lists are very useful, because they allow you to standardize the names before the articles are created. It also lets the writers see what articles still need to be written. The deleters argued that the information was already covered by a category, but categories only cover existing material. Geographical entries should always be allowed, we don't delete towns because they are not notable. Anyway the lists stated that enties with descriptions needed to have at least one person with a biography in Wikipedia. Did anyone get to see what the final vote tally was? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 17:38, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved to protected namespace

You can still contribute to a good project in NJ geography. Remember to always backup your data somewhere! Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Cemeterys

[edit] NJ Transit station articles - templates to use

I would like to point everyone's attention to a template I created specifically for use on NJT rail station articles. The template is {{NJT rail line}} and its purpose is to replace the currently-used {{rail line}}. Please see the template talk for detailed instructions on how to use it; it is a LOT simpler than the current {{rail line}} and eliminates the need for piped links. Here's a sample edit which shows the changes necessary to make when doing the conversion. Thanks! lensovet 20:29, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History buff needed

Please check out List of current and former capital cities in the United States and make sure that New Jersey's capital cities are listed accurately. A word of warning: the page does contain quite a bit of complicated wiki formatting, so if you're not comfortable editing it, just post your changes on the talk page and someone more experienced will apply them to the article.   JEK   19:54, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nominate articles for Portal:United States

I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Though, I think the Portal:United States would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) If there is anything related to New Jersey (or anything else related to the U.S. - culture, music, literature, geography, history, politics, ...), please nominate. I'd also like people to weigh in on the nominations and help select what should be featured. Thanks. --Aude (talk contribs) 23:24, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New "People from [city]" Categories

Hello, everybody. I am the bozo who just recently created the new subcategories in the "People from New Jersey" category. I thought that some of you might want to know why they were created, and why they often have so few pages in them.

The majority of the states have "People from [state]" categories which have at least 200 entries, sometimes over 1,000. This is clearly an unworkably large number for anyone wishing to use the category for research purposes. In 8th grade in Rapid City, South Dakota, the social studies class asked us to write, over the course of the year, reports on two or three people who were or had been residents of the city. Because of that, I have reason to believe that they could be used and probably are used for research purposes. To make such research easier, I looked at the list of metropolitan statistical areas and basically entered in one new category for each metropolitan statistical area.

I know that many of these categories might well be, in the eyes of you who know more about the cities in question much better than I do, misnamed or otherwise faulty. I apologize for any mistakes I may have made along those lines, and I would welcome any corrections, including deletion, that any of the rest of you might choose to make. With that in mind, I have also generally populated the categories with only one or two names, to ease in the process of deletion or renaming.

I thought you all should know why these categories were created, and felt some degree of responsibility for letting your know. I wish you all the greatest good fortune in making the coverage of your state in Wikipedia of the greatest scope and quality possible, and I hope that I haven't annoyed too many of you by my recent actions. Badbilltucker 13:31, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New WikiProject

State and county highways now have their own WikiProject at Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey State and County Routes. -- Northenglish (talk) -- 00:34, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Jersey Portal

I was surprised to see that we didn't have a portal, so I just created it at Portal:New Jersey. It just started out so please add any suggestions either on the talk page, tell them to me on my talk page, or just be bold and add what you think would be good to the portal yourself.--Jersey Devil 23:16, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NJT station links

Hello, we now have a new template for linking to stations, {{njt-sta}}! It means that now there is absolutely no need to type piped links into station articles! Check out its talk page for instructions. lensovet 22:53, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Are you aware of the pipe trick? --SPUI (T - C) 16:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Raritan River bridges

I've added stubs for the Albany Street Bridge, the Donald and Morris Goodkind Bridges, and the Basilone Bridge. The bridge immediately upstream from Albany Street is an Amtrak/NJT railroad bridge, and I don't know its name (if it has one). So, I just called it "Northeast Corridor". Please feel free to double-check, expand, and keep moving upstream. Wl219 02:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Also added the John Lynch Bridge. Wl219 04:45, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
The North Jersey Coast Line R.R. bridge is, according to Google Maps, the last bridge to cross the Raritan before it empties into the ocean. It's currently listed as "Raritan River Bridge" although I don't know if that's accurate. Wl219 08:36, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article about New Jersey in pop culture?

Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough, but I'm trying to find information concerning New Jersey being at the butt end of jokes for no apparent reason, especially when told from the perspective of New York City.

One specific example I can think of is in the first episode of the show Futurama, in which Fry is frozen at New Year's Day 2000 in New York City and is unthawed in 3000 in what has become New New York City. He's looking for a place to live and is having little luck. He does find the perfect apartment, but the real estate agent tells him that there's one catch: It's technically in New Jersey. This makes the apartment thoroughly undesirable to Fry.

If someone directed me to an article, or if one were created, it would be greatly appreciated. Äþelwulf See my contributions. 18:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goverment Shutdown article

The 2006 New Jersey State Government shutdown is coming along nicely, but could use the help of more members of this wikiproject. Anyone have any information that they would like to contribute, please feel free to help out. --ZeWrestler Talk 14:23, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub deletion notification

This message is to inform the WikiProject that {{NewJersey-stub}} and Cat:New Jersey stubs are being considered for deletion at WP:SFD. The category is currently undersized, meaning it has less than 35 articles. Please populate this within 6 days (July 27th) or the stub template and category will be deleted. If you have a question, feel free to leave a message on my talk page or on the SFD page. Thanks you and happy editing. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 17:04, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rutgers

If anyone's interested, I'd like to lead off a major renovation of the Rutgers-related articles (Rutgers-Newark/Camden especially). A lot need to be expanded, etc. —ExplorerCDT 20:24, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Complaint in the week of August 3rd

As a New Jerseyan, member of this WikiProject, I can say, truly, that I am the only one that has worked on this week collaboration. To be honest, I am quite dissapointed at the rest of the team. Also, I need some peoples to work with me to enhance the Sandy Hook article, and the Long Branch, NJ article. If you don't know about Long Branch, it is a political hotspot regarding eminent domain. I'd like to head the reconstruction of these articles. --Evan 00:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD's for Atlantic County Freeholders

There is a group of AfD's for articles relating to the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Kelly (Freeholder). As indicated on the Freeholder AfD, I believe that the Freeholder article should be merged into the Atlantic County, New Jersey article (to become a redirect), but that the articles for the individual Freeholders should stay, as there is ample material to expand these articles to meet the level of the several dozen other New Jersey Freeholder articles. While I hope that you will support my suggestion, I would like to encourage other WP:NJ participants to express their opinion on the issue. Alansohn 15:29, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More dissapointment!

Honestly- COME ON! Let's get some serious work done. If you have done any real large-scale work for the last month, please excuse yourself below, as this comment is undeserved to you, and must be targeted at the lazy ones. I suggest we clear anyone off of the WikiProject who isn't willing to work. Comment below please. Sincerly yours, -[[User:Esoltas|Esoltas] 01:49, 23 August 2006 (UTC).

  • getting work done is one thing. kicking people off is a completly different thing. maybe something happened in real life that has kept them from editing. for instance in my case, i kinda just moved and started grad school. therefore, editing for me is at a low. but when i can spare time here and there, i'll glance over articles for correction. --ZeWrestler Talk 01:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Getting work done, massively re-editing the Rutgers University article (when it's not protected from the fem-nazis and their p.c. agenda) and related topics, edited Joyce Kilmer, added a new article about his wife, Aline Murray Kilmer. Three great NJ topics. All whilst moving, landing a cool job, and enjoying myself (yeah, Jack Daniel's!) Some people have lives, Esoltas. —ExplorerCDT 02:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Wanted to let you know that WP:BIOGRAPHY has added a "work group" called Politics and government, and so wanted to invite you to participate on any biography-type articles. The section for NJ is here and if there's interest, we can beef it up to look like the newly-created Virginia one plange 05:31, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geography of New Jersey

I started up the article for Geography of New Jersey as per the collaboration of the week. i set up some basic structure based on the landform regions of nj, but it needs a lot more help. so please add on to it guys. --ZeWrestler Talk 17:20, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Project participants may be interested in knowing that Geography of New Jersey is up for voting for collaboration of the week again at Wikipedia:Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. Wl219 02:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of shopping malls in New Jersey

There is a discussion taking place regarding whether the List of shopping malls in New Jersey article should be deleted. Accurizer 21:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I don't find that article terribly compelling. Can anyone give a few sentences as to the distinct contribution of the mall to NJ? That would strengthen the case for keeping the article (esp. if the sentences were added to the article...). I'm at a loss for any such reasons myself. --ishu 22:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories for NJ points of interest

I first finished the first draft of Speedwell Ironworks and am struggling with how to categorize it. It seems to me we should create a structure of categories for points of interest in New Jersey, but I'm unclear what the right hierarchy should be - maybe there should be several. For example, this particular place could be categorized as:

  • Point of interest in Morris County
  • Historical reconstructions in New Jersey
  • National Historical Landmarks in New Jersey

What do others think? --Leifern 12:52, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

There is an entry for Speedwell Village-The Factory in List of Registered Historic Places in New Jersey. If this is the same place, then Category:Registered Historic Places in New Jersey, which is under Category:Landmarks in New Jersey. You can certainly add it under Category:Morris County, New Jersey too. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hudson County Vital Records

I'm writing this here, rather than the Hudson County talk page so it gets a bit more exposure, but I'm wondering if it would be appropriate to add the "recent" problem with vital records from this county, that is, all birth certificates were declared invalid back in 2004.

A safer America: The document problem

Is anyone more familiar with this? Mborrelli 11:34, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation to new WikiProject

A new WikiProject has been started, and may be of interest to members here. It is WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. It covers all listings on the Register, in all states and territories. Should you be so inclined, please feel free to join. And spread the word to any other interested parties. -Ebyabe 19:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Warren County articles in category for Lehigh Valley?

All, recently municipal articles for Warren County, New Jersey were added to Category:Lehigh Valley even though these locations are outside of the geographical definition of the valley. This also puts the articles underneath the Category:Pennsylvania heirarchy, and I think it will be a source of confusion. There is a discussion ongoing at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pennsylvania#Lehigh_Valley.3F. Please comment there. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 04:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Jersey article

So I happened to just look at the NJ article and realized it's 99 kb long which is huge for an article on Wikipedia. It needs some major attention. In addition, no U.S. state has reached featured article status. We have the History of New Jersey as a featured article and List of New Jersey hurricanes was a featured list, so we probably have the ability to make the New Jersey article featured. I'd be willing to pitch in as I can with clean-up and formatting but I wouldn't be the best choice of writers/researchers. Anyone have thoughts about this? Metros232 21:59, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Skimming the article briefly, i think the first thing that needs to be done is have information cut from the article, and placed into suporinting articles. --ZeWrestler Talk 23:19, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 19:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paulins Kill

I invite all of you to take a look at Paulins Kill, an article I've been working on for a while, regarding a river in Northwestern New Jersey (USA). I should be almost finished with tonight. I wanted your comments, etc. on it before I submitted it for peer review and possibly as a featured article candidate. —ExplorerCDT 22:00, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Before listing it for FA, I'd suggest adding a map. JimIrwin (t c) has been producing high-quality maps including geographic features for some time, so perhaps he could help out here. Also consider getting some feedback at Wikipedia:Good articles. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 23:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Assessment

I started a page, categories, etc. for assessing articles, so now that the WikiProject New Jersey template has rankings for article quality and article importance...over the next few weeks, we should start ranking them. If any Pennsylvania's creep in there, I largely stole it lock stock and barrel from WikiProject Pennsylvania. —ExplorerCDT 22:43, 1 November 2006 (UTC) See here: Wikipedia:WikiProject New Jersey/Assessment

[edit] Upcoming NYC Meetup

You wanted to know when the next meetup was being organized in New York City. Plan for Saturday, 9 December 2006. While you're at it. Come help us decide on a restaurant. See: Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC. Spread the word. Thanks. —ExplorerCDT 22:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Cooper River

I took the stub that existed and greatly expanded the article on this South Jersey river in Camden County, the Cooper River. Although it's not of high importance, I'd appreciate if any fellow South Jersians could take a look at this. Aufs klo 22:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:NJ, meet WIkiProject: Protected areas

I just noticed last night, when I finally created the Watchung Reservation article, that not only was there no category for protected areas in New Jersey, it seemed a whole bunch of eligible articles had been created with little or no attempt to include them in WikiProject Protected Areas.

I have remedied some of this, by creating and populating the appropriate category and putting PA project boxes on the talk pages of all the state forest articles. But the state parks still need to be addressed. There's an infobox that can go in all of them, too.

But this is way behind other state projects. There are at least five states where there's a similar category. Be aware of it when you create any more park articles.

Also, would someone consider (If I don't do it), reworking the parks template along the lines of Protected Areas of Pennsylvania so that it at least separates state parks and state forests. Yes, I know that in NJ, unlike NY (and PA too? I'm not sure), the state parks and state forests are run by the same agency. But they're different types of PAs, and should properly be treated separately (Whose idea was it to put all the NJ state forests in the NJ state parks cat, too, FTM?) Daniel Case 18:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

It seems clear that Category:New Jersey state parks should be under Category:Parks in New Jersey, but what about Category:New Jersey state forests? --ChrisRuvolo (t) 01:16, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bergen County article - requesting review

Hello, before I list the Bergen County article for good article status, I'd like to get some review by WP:NJ members. Please comment at Talk:Bergen County, New Jersey. Thank you. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 05:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Article Candidate: Paulins Kill

The Paulins Kill, a river in Northwestern New Jersey, is now a Featured Article Candidate. Please feel free to comment, throw your support, or trash the article here: Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Paulins_Kill. Thanks. —ExplorerCDT 17:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Paulins Kill is still a Featured Article candidate, suggestions have been made and the article has been edited to address all concerns raised...but very few people have given their SUPPORT (The only OPPOSE/OBJECT vote was retracted). Please show up at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Paulins_Kill and give your SUPPORT. Your support and feedback is needed and appreciated. —ExplorerCDT 02:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Featured Article Candidate: New Jersey State Constitution

[edit] Cemeteries, Churches, etc. in New Jersey

I think it's about time we create a naming convention for cemeteries, churches, and other notable places in New Jersey. I've named some of the articles I've started and on which I am currently working as follows:

I've noticed other cemeteries, churches and places are listed as Name, Town. Some with Town and State. I think we need to organize the name with Town and State. I recently renamed two cemeteries in New Brunswick as First Reformed Church Cemetery (New Brunswick, New Jersey) because their previous name First Reformed Church Cemetery, New Brunswick could have raised confusion with New Brunswick in Canada or other NBs in the U.S. I placed the name New Brunswick, New Jersey in parenthesis for balance and aesthetics. To me, just separating it from the name of the cemetery by a comma is unsightly and unbalanced.

Since there's a level of variation and inconsistency on this issue, I think we need to set out a naming convention for these and other New Jersey articles. —ExplorerCDT 18:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

IMO, either way is fine, as long as there are redirects for the others methods. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 22:57, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peer Reviews, etc.

The following New Jersey related articles are undergoing Peer Reviews:

  1. Joyce Kilmer
  2. Rutgers University

I would appreciate your input and suggestions regarding ways these two articles can be improved and possibly get them to a state of worthiness for Featured Article status.

Both of the Peer Reviews in question can be found here: Wikipedia:Peer review.

For your information, the Joyce Kilmer article passed Good Article on 31 December 2006, only a mere one hour and 56 minutes after it was nominated.

Thank you in advance for your efforts and comments in this regard. —ExplorerCDT 00:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] State Logos

What fair use rationale are we using for any logos from the state? According to the NJ website agency logos, or the Great Seal, can only be used as allowed by law but those uses are not stated. I'm trying to pick the correct copyright tag for the New Jersey State Police logo. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Editcml (talk • contribs)

The fair use rationale is outlined in {{seal}}. Others are using {{logo}}. The wikipedia servers are in Florida and are not subject to New Jersey law (although you may be; this is not legal advise). See here for the NJ statute about use of the seal. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:59, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Since that link is not working, the statute follows. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 15:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
52:2-3. Persons authorized to use the Great Seal
1.The Governor of the State, the head of any principal executive department of the State, the members of the Legislature of the State, the former members of the Legislature of the State as provided in section 2 of P.L.1999, c.374 (C.39:3-27.115), the Justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the Superior Court, the county prosecutors, county clerks, surrogates and sheriffs, the Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the General Assembly and members of the Congress of the United States and each of them, are authorized to use, exhibit and display the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, in whole or in part, including such use, exhibition and display on their motor vehicle license plates.
52:2-4. Unauthorized use; penalty
Any person who is not authorized by law to use, exhibit or display the State Seal, who uses, exhibits or displays the Great Seal of the State of New Jersey, in whole or in part, is a disorderly person and upon conviction as such shall be subject to a fine of $50.00.
52:2-5. Unauthorized use upon vehicle license plate; revocation
Any person who is convicted as a disorderly person for an unauthorized use of the State Seal upon a motor vehicle license plate shall be subject to a revocation of his motor vehicle registration by the Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles in the State Department of Law and Public Safety.

[edit] Newark

I have proposed that Newark be moved to Newark (disambiguation) and replaced with a redirect to Newark, New Jersey. Please discuss at talk:Newark - crz crztalk 14:51, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Joyce Kilmer

Please visit the talk page and review the recent edit-warring history for Joyce Kilmer and please comment on whether certain genealogical information (which I think is irrelevant and anti-policy) should be inserted into the article. —ExplorerCDT 00:16, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paulins Kill is now a Featured Article

The article Paulins Kill was promoted to Featured Article just few hours ago. Just to inform y'all and to thank you for any contributions or suggestions some of you have made to help improve the article and develop it well enough to earn inclusion among Wikipedia's finest work. Thank y'all. —ExplorerCDT 04:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Rutgers

FYI: I've started a WikiProject, hopefully to be under the auspices of the New Jersey and Universities WikiProjects to direct efforts to articles related to Rutgers University, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rutgers. —ExplorerCDT 16:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Navboxen

These should either line up or all be centred (preferable). For me the ones at the bottom of Clifton, New Jersey do not seem to have the same centre. Rich Farmbrough, 10:53 23 February 2007 (GMT).

I have changed the Passic County navbox. I suppose the others need checking. Rich Farmbrough, 10:58 23 February 2007 (GMT).
All done. Rich Farmbrough, 12:27 23 February 2007 (GMT).

A display can be found here. Rich Farmbrough, 12:30 23 February 2007 (GMT).

[edit] Historical population data for municipalities

There is historical NJ municipal population information (1930-1990) here [6] [7]. Please use this data with the {{USCensusPop}} template as follows. Just place the population on the year= lines. This table should go into the "Demographics" section. I've added similar tables to all the county articles already.

{{USCensusPop
| 1930=
| 1940=
| 1950=
| 1960=
| 1970=
| 1980=
| 1990=
| 2000=
| footnote=historical data source: <ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www.wnjpin.net/OneStopCareerCenter/LaborMarketInformation/lmi01/poptrd6.htm
  |title=New Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1930 - 1990
  |accessdate=2007-03-03}}</ref>
}}

--ChrisRuvolo (t) 02:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I also came across another source [8] [9], which has data for major cities. This includes a reference to Harrisburg, New Jersey, a city, in the 1880 rankings, but not in the preceding or following years. Does anyone know what municipality this refers to? Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:31, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
The Index section of "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. shows nothing for Harrisburg, and it includes Everything. New Jersey's locality and place name search tool finds nothing, as well. Beats me. Alansohn 20:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
I now think this is an error by the Census Bureau. They mean Harrisburg, PA. See the below numbers. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
  • 1870 "Harrisburg, PA": 23,104 [10]
  • 1880 "Harrisburg, NJ": 30,762 [11]
  • 1890 "Harrisburg, PA": 39,385 [12]
Congratulations again on completing this ludicrously ambitious task. Where's a bot when you need one? What is the source of the Harrisburg data above? Alansohn 18:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
They are the tables from [13]. Links added above. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 19:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually, we might be able to get a little further back. As you may already know, I've found information that dates back to the first Census, 1790, for the townships and cities around then. However, the only issue is 1800, 1810, 1830, and 1840 are all missing (strangely, 1820's easy to find), therefore making the earliest I could start and run continuously is 1850. Now, I've already done it for the municipalities in Salem County, and as soon as I have time, I'll do the rest. If anyone (especially you two) want to help me, that's great. Otherwise, I'll just work on it as I get some time. I've already started in Salem, like I said, so my next counties are the touching ones, Gloucester and Cumberland. Lemme know if you wanna help, because since these are scans of the originals, unfortunately, the Adobe Reader's "Find" doesn't do a damn bit of good. Therefore, it's even more arduous than before, but it can be done in a reasonable amount of time (took Salem only 2 days, and that's cause I only worked on it an hour at a time). Any volunteers? EaglesFanInTampa (formerly Jimbo) 00:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
I think Alan and I got them all now. If we missed any, let us know. BTW, I didn't put 2005 population estimates for most of the municipalities, as that is a moving target (don't want to update this every year, and they are not canonical census counts). If you want to add that info for a particular municipality or CDP, use the U.S. Census Factfinder to look it up. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Jimbo/EaglesFan, thanks, I hadn't seen that link before. I ran through the 1920 census report. It shows data for large municipalities as far back as 1810. It also shows data for all other municipalities for 1900 to 1920. I've compiled that data and added it to the spreadsheet. Please use the following reference when adding this data. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 19:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

<ref>{{cite web
  |url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/41084506no553.zip
  |format=ZIP
  |title=Fourteenth Census of The United States: 1920; Population: New Jersey; Number of inhabitants, by counties and minor civil divisions
  |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]
  |accessdate=2007-03-21
  |author=Wm. C. Hunt, Chief Statistician for Population}}</ref>

[edit] New articles

Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible New Jersey-related articles found by bot is available at User:AlexNewArtBot/NewJerseySearchResult. Colchicum 14:58, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Washington's crossing of the Delaware

Folks, there's currently a proposal to merge Washington's crossing of the Delaware with Battle of Trenton at Talk:Washington's crossing of the Delaware#Merge with Battle of Trenton. I personally oppose merger, but the NJ community should comment. Wl219 21:09, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Articles in Barnegat / LBI area

I've spent quite a bit of time trying to improve Barnegat Light, New Jersey, Barnegat Lighthouse, Long Beach Island, Barnegat Bay, and Barnegat Inlet. While I still have some more thoughts on what to add into Barnegat Light and I hope to obtain plenty of photos for all of the subjects, I'm starting to run short on improvement ideas for the articles. I welcome input from other users -- feel free to edit the article on post recommendations either here or on the respective talk pages of the articles. Thanks! --Bossi (talk ;; contribs) 17:46, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fort Dix attack

Since Ft Dix is in Nj, i've added 2007 Fort Dix attack plot to the project. --ZeWrestler Talk 20:34, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Seals and logos may be deleted unless action is taken.

FYI, in case you are not aware, there are bots going through and marking for deletion any logo or seal that does not have a fair use rationale on the image page. This will include town seals, county seals, etc. Please go through the images you have uploaded and create a rationale for any image that has been or might be tagged for deletion. Being pro-active here will be easier than going back and re-uploading the images. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:49, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Importance rating

Could someone from this project assign an importance rating to the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62)? I would rather not have that box left with a question mark. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:01, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another featured list

Hi! You might want to add List of New Jersey birds to your featured list section—since it is, indeed a featured list! :) MeegsC | Talk 18:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blairsden, Peapack/Gladstone‎

Greetings from the left coast. This article was created today by user Weird NJ, which by an astounding coincidence is the name of the magazine the article appears to be copied from. The content does not appear to be online on the mag's web site, else I would have speedy-tagged it straight away. Due to the potential copyvio issue the article seems prod-dable, but I wanted to call attention to it here in case someone wanted to either do something productive with it or confirm the copyvio so it can be deleted. Thank you for your time. --Finngall talk 23:11, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geography of NJ COTW

I've nominated Geography of New Jersey for the article improvement drive. Support would be great for it. --ZeWrestler Talk 03:28, 17 August 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Putting NJ terrain map in towns

17-Aug-2007: I have begun putting a quick New Jersey roadmap in major town articles. However, the map's size might be an issue (don't panic, it's not a cumbersome, gargantuan PNG map that will crash browsers). It's an ultra-quick, photo-terrain JPEG map. The map shows the major towns, plus roads, hills, and creeks/bays in the state, purposely labeled to be readable when displayed down to the typical 295px/300px width:

I am trying to use similar map-size in many town articles, since same-sized images reuse browser cache files, downloading the actual map only once per browser cache-period. (I have already put similar roadmaps in 30 major Louisiana town articles). Rationale for use of roadmaps in town articles:

  • Shows town, in nearby context, of State & nearby towns/states;
  • Shows town, in nearby context, of roads/Interstates/rivers;
  • Map is fast 50kb first time, reuses browser cache afterward.
  • A "picture is worth a thousand words" if the picture follows standards, else it's a "different thousand to each viewer";
  • Who knew Hoboken was so close to New York City?
  • Who knew Staten Island looks like part of New Jersey?
  • A map helps orient outsiders to the whole area;
  • Similar maps are used by http://www.city-data.com (however, WP can't compete [yet] with those city-data maps, for town-limits, town-region, and town within interstate-area-map);
  • The map can also be used for river/bay articles to show nearby stuff, such as town names.

Discussion issues:

  • What size map should be used to show "nearby context"?
  • Could state roadmap-subsets be used to provide smaller maps?
  • Do maps typically bother locals so much that maps should be moved near the bottom of town articles, with outsiders scanning the article to find bottom maps?

Those are some of the things to ponder. -Wikid77 18:32, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki resizes large images down to the displayed size. Having a high-quality PNG would be preferred, as JPEGs are only suitable for photographic data. Second, the maps as currently added to articles (e.g. Hoboken, Weehawken and Union City) take up far too much screen real estate. Thirdly, at the scale of display in the article, there is not much local information that can be discerned, and there is far too much information on other regions of the state. IMO, this map would be more suitable for an article on the state's highway network than articles on individual municipalities. I recommend that this map be removed from municipality articles. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your input. Another user agreed with the concept of the map taking "too much screen real estate" and I tend to agree. I am working on a 2nd subset (close-up) map for those many (famous) northeast towns, which could link to the full map, outside. Again, thanks for responding, I know only a handful of WP editors are keeping this stuff organized. --Wikid77 14:12, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

copied from Talk:Hoboken, New Jersey:

Though the contribution is appreciated, a road map of New Jersey's major highways and mention of nearby towns doesn't seem to add much to the article. The other map, which seems standard for Wikipedia, may be less colorful, already indicates Hoboken's location within the state. Are there strong objections to removing it, or at least making it smaller and re-locating to a different section, such as transportation???? Wouldn't a map of the city itself be more approprate? Djflem 10:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

I think we nearly have consensus against the inclusion of this map in municipal articles. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:42, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
19-Aug-2007: To User:Djflem: The map, although showing some major highways, is about providing context of the Geographic location, and the map illustrates the following nearby text in that "Hoboken" article:
"Hoboken is located at 40°44'41" North, 74°1'59" West (40.744851, -74.032941).GR1 and lies on the west bank of the Hudson River across from the Manhattan, New York City neighborhoods of the West Village and Chelsea between Weehawken Cove and Union City at the north and Jersey City (the county seat) at the south and west."
Note that "Hudson River" and NYC, Weehawken, Union City and Jersey City (mentioned) are all shown on that map, at that point in the article. As for size, I have reduced the regional map to the top-half of New Jersey with state borders. For maps to be readable, alongside the text, they need to be "larger than a postage stamp" (which might be okay for buildings/cars/etc.). And yes, people have complained, "the regional map was too small to be useful" so seek balance. On balance, note how the map (only 295px width) is readable alongside the Geography text above: it shows the named places without requiring another webpage display, then allows the user to continue reading/scrolling the page. For people with vision trouble, they have the option to display the full-size map webpage, but others can just read along by scrolling.
As for a city-map, yes, that is also needed, using multiple pre-selected maps as displayed by http://www.city-data.com. Such a city-map could put Hoboken in the center and show edges of neighboring city limits, then major local streets (not just Interstates/highways). Again, www.city-data.com provides both city-limit & regional maps, together, but Wikipedia can't compete against that level of workmanship [yet], so let's focus on the easier regional maps, first.
The current location of the regional-map is actually best: there was some blank space near the "Hoboken" Table of Contents, which preceded the Geography section mentioning those map locations: an ideal pairing of space available near text relating to the map. I think a city-limit/street map would be better located under a "Transportation" section, in the sense that bus routes and nearby towns would be connected by local streets (not just Interstates/highways). Houston, Texas has express buses that skip many local streets by hopping on/off Interstates.
As for making the map smaller, I wonder if local residents are bothered by maps of their towns, so the regional map should be structured to connect as a thumbnail to avoid local people fuming (about that "darned map image"). As you know, travel maps are huge: fan-folding a map while riding in a car can be a major nuisance, so maps generally tend to be large due to the vast amount of information they add to an article (as viewed by an outsider, perhaps not the local POV). -Wikid77 09:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I do not know much about all the computer tech stuff you've mentioned, so sorry, I can't respond to that. I can say that the map which you are proposing is very "Jersey-centric" and offers no perspective to the location, role, history, context to the NY Metropolitan area. How can a map not indicate Manhattan, the Hudson, Brooklyn? If it seems important to have such a map can it at least be of the region? For example, 50 mile radius from Times Square, or something? How can you show a map that put Pennsylvania, New York, and CT as vague, obscure, places? Come on... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Djflem (talk • contribs) 04:14, August 20, 2007 (UTC).

Sorry I didn't sign off last time: but my concerns grow greater. The role of Hoboken, and Hudson County in general, are minimalized by presenting a NJ map. The location, culture, history, and impact of the city and it's residents cannot be defined by the map proposed. I find it to be poor and misleading information when not contextualized.Djflem 06:13, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

21-Aug-2007: To User:Djflem: I have created a "draft" Hudson-County towns map (Image:Map Hudson County NJ municipalities.gif, in the style of Jim Irwin's county maps from Dec. 2005), and I agree that showing the county area is needed, especially since the towns are so close (there are no rural pastures separating the towns). I also agree about showing a more NJ+NY regional map (not just Jersey-centric), with more than just showing "Staten Island" labeled as I had added. Each map added to each article reveals more constraints and issues to handle: I finally agree with the notion to keep most maps small because the hidden-TOC and resizing with wide-windows can format text better around smaller images. You had already suggested (above, 18Aug07), "Wouldn't a map of the city itself be more approprate?" and I finally found those Jim Irwin maps that show rough city-limits for each town in a county. That is why I created the Hudson-County towns map. Now note, that other states have cities that span multiple counties/parishes (such as New Orleans), but the towns-within-county mapping seems to work for NJ. Also, few places in the country have the problem of massive cities such as New York & Philadelphia as border "towns" prompting the need for multi-state regional maps. (Weehawken would be very different without the tunnel to NYC.) I agree with your concept about the Jersey-centric issue, just as El Paso, TX should map with Juarez, Mexico due to the combined presence. Thanks for the suggestions; I have very limited time, but changes are coming. -Wikid77 20:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

I know you're trying, but this new map is awful quality. Why would it be used instead of Image:Hudson County, New Jersey Municipalities.png or Image:Hudson County, NJ municipalities labeled.png? Here's a summary of the problems:
  1. No information of provenance of map.
  2. East Newark and Gutenberg are different colors. What does this mean?
  3. The lines between the labels and the locations are green for Gutenberg and Union City, but black for East Newark. What does this mean?
  4. The map uses a strange projection and appears squished vertically.
  5. The blue line appears to show a water boundary, but does not match known boundary in other maps.
  6. Why does only Jersey City have lakes/ponds/streams present? Where is this data from?
  7. The labels for different municipalities use different fonts/sizes.
  8. GIF format. This is only suitable for animations. For static images, GIF is considered deprecated in favor of PNG.
  9. The color fill is not correct. There are irregular white edges on all the filled surfaces.
  10. Inappropriate for municipal articles because it does not specify which municipality the article is about. Compare to Image:Secaucus nj.png.
I appreciate that you are trying, but these maps really need to go. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 20:50, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Example mapped city articles

19-Aug-2007: Some NJ town articles have regional maps, but also in Swedish Wikipedia towns:

See more map discussion above: Putting NJ..map in towns. -Wikid77 09:06, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hiding TOC

19-Aug-2007: I've noticed, this weekend, the Table-of-Contents (TOC) "[hide]" option has been fixed to allow shrinking/hiding the TOC detail lines. This change will require reformatting thousands of articles to auto-reformat image/text placement, but we knew this day would come, and so it has. I have begun editing articles, with explanation "Allow HIDDEN Table of Contents.." noting, for each article, the changes to allow Hide/Show TOC. An easy fix is to stack the earlier right-side images/tables (as a series of "Image:" and table definitions) near the top of the article, depending on top paragraphs to provide filler text. The text-clipping glitch has NOT been fixed [yet] for small-then-large image stacking; otherwise, make images similar size or put smaller images after large. Images later in the article should auto-reformat fine, as is, without moving them. -Wikid77 21:46, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Noted: Eclipsing of text (when wider images are stacked after narrow) has NOT been fixed: stack images in wider-then-narrow order. -Wikid77 09:53, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
This is either a CSS problem in the browser or a CSS definition problem in the MediaWiki CSS. This in not in the scope of WPNJ. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 12:56, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer Review

Hello all, I'm new to this WikiProject and to Wikipedia itself. I've created a page about the New Jersey Transit Police Department and I was wondering if I could get a peer review from the people in this project. I would greatly appreciate comments and constructive criticism. Seeing how this is my first artice I still have quite a bit to learn! (Rebel3986 03:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Cemetery

Please voice an opinion as to whether the cemetery should be deleted from Wikipedia at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of burials at Bayview Cemetery, Jersey City. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 19:58, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geography of New Jersey is this week's WP:ACID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Geography of New Jersey was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

This falls under our project, therefore, we should be able to muster up a lot of information that can help improve this article. Lets work together while this article received the ACID attention.--ZeWrestler Talk 19:59, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Peer review for Pulaski Skyway

I reorganized and partially rewrote this several-year-old featured article, and would like comments on whether I did a good job. Please comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Pulaski Skyway/archive1. --NE2 01:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problematic new maps

Recently new maps have been added to NJ municipalities by ArkyBot (t c), a bot operated by Arkyan (t c). These new maps are in many ways deficient compared to the previously existing maps. Consider the following maps for the New Egypt, New Jersey CDP.

map by JimIrwin (t c), December 2005. map by ArkyBot (t c), October 2007 map by JimIrwin (t c), depicting all of the incorporated areas of Ocean County
map by JimIrwin (t c), December 2005 map by ArkyBot (t c), October 2007 map by JimIrwin (t c), depicting all of the incorporated areas of Ocean County

Here is the situation as I see it:

Benefits of the Jim Irwin map:

  • has compass rose
  • has scale
  • borders include water area
  • depicts major roads
  • labels the community in question
  • highlights and labels the municipality that the community is in
  • labels other communities
  • labels the county

Detractions of the Jim Irwin map:

  • PNG format
  • labels cam be hard to read

Benefits of the ArkyBot map:

  • SVG

Detractions of the ArkyBot map:

  • no labels
  • no legend
  • map of state is unnecessarily large
  • does not include townships in map, only CDPs and other incorporated municpalities (incorrect)
  • does not include water boundaries
  • maps are named "Incorporated and Unincorporated areas". There are no unincorporated areas of New Jersey. (incorrect)

In short, these new maps are vastly inferior to the older maps. They should be bulk-reverted IMO. Arkyan, in the future, please work with the relevant wikiprojects to avoid the replacement of more correct maps. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 16:41, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I noticed an additional problem. Some maps of townships that have overlapping CDPs are not highlighted at all. Example: Lyndhurst, NJ. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 17:42, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
  • I can't agree more with your analysis of the issues. In every case I've seen, the maps are inferior to what existed before, in terms of content. With counties where JimIrwin had created maps, they're far inferior. The JimIrwin maps also label adjoining counties and states, among its other benefits. The Arkybot addition of infoboxes was a big plus for this project, but the maps are a step backward. Alansohn 23:22, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
  • They can be reverted, then - it's no real problem. From a technical perspective you might have to wait a little bit, it might take me several days to write up a modification that will allow the bot to go back and revert to the pre-existing maps without reverting the infoboxes, but I'll get on it. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 02:27, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks, Arkyan. I appreciate your understanding and your willingness to reverse the map changes. I'd very much like to have improved SVG maps generated by your bot, and can work with you to get there. Let me know what I can do to help. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 21:34, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Sure, I'd be happy to take a look at it, although it'll have to wait a few weeks while I finish up with the other state maps, but I'll give you a buzz when I'm ready to see what we can do about at least moving from raster over to vector graphics here, too. ɑʀкʏɑɴ 05:48, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Arkyan, any progress on getting these maps reverted? Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:12, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedian Meetup across the Hudson

New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday January 13th, Columbia University area
Last: 11/3/2007
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This will be the second of the meetups with a session dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues (see the last meeting's minutes).

In the morning, there are exciting plans for a behind-the-scenes guided tour of the American Museum of Natural History. We will also have activities scheduled after the session, with dinner at a local restaurant and (weather permitting) some late-night astronomy thrown in.

[edit] Assistance requested at Central Jersey.

Experts, local knowledge, and reliable sources are requested for the Central Jersey article. Please see recent edit history and the talk page. Thanks. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 04:21, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Taylor

A long time ago, I created stub articles for many folks named John Taylor, including John Taylor (Taylor Ham), and the Taylor Opera House in Trenton. The opera house article was just given a "proposed deletion" tag and I cleaned it up and removed the tag, but I thought people interested in New Jersey might have more to add to the article on the Opera House and the man who created it, to stave off future deletion attempts. Please have a look and expand and reference them if you can -- thanks! — Catherine\talk 17:48, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Article has been expanded with additional details and sources. It will be diligently monitored on my watchlist. Alansohn (talk) 04:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of non-municipalities from county templates

A series of edits over the past several days have removed information for non-municipalities from some of the templates for New Jersey counties, most notably that of Template:Essex County, New Jersey, (see this edit for details), which sites the fact that "this is not done anywhere, no reason for Essex County to be different" as justification for removal. As pointed out to the editor involved, this information reflects a long-standing consensus for New Jersey's templates, all the more at issue as the information had been added to the template almost two years ago. The question proposed is "should information for communities that are not municipalities be retained on the templates for New Jersey's 21 counties?" Alansohn (talk) 04:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Neighborhoods notable enough for an article (and all CDPs) should definitely be linked on the templates. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 23:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unincorporated communities category discussion

[14]. --Polaron | Talk 02:31, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New List

How about a list on towns in NJ? Many (or most) other states have this, it's easy(ish) to make, and is an easy Featured List. See List of towns in New York. I'd be willing to make or edit it. Also, what do you do on your talk page to add a template for this project? Thanks.--Mm40 (talk) 21:01, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

It already exists. See List of municipalities in New Jersey (by population). --ChrisRuvolo (t) 14:27, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March Wikipedian Meetup across the Hudson

New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday March 16th, Columbia University area
Last: 1/13/2008
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, and have salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list..--Pharos (talk) 23:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Project New Jersey: Articles of unclear notability

Hello,

there are currently 10 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to remove claims of alleged controversy about Raritan Valley

Thanks for including the article Central Jersey in WikiProject New Jersey. I've placed a proposal on the article's talk page to remove the claims that there is controversy over whether the Raritan Valley in New Jersey exists. If you're interested, please visit the page and register your support or opposition for the proposal. Thanks. --Bryan H Bell (talk) 04:57, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I am interested in joining a WikiProject Central Jersey as a subordinate project to the NJ project. The Central Jersey article has been an impediment to my actually stepping up and forming a subproject as it needs serious attention from WP NJ editors before a project can be contemplated. I've spent considerable time working on WP Erie, a subproject of WP PA, and found it a nice way to focus on northwestern PA. IMO WP NJ would surely benefit from such a narrowing of scope into logical geographic regions as well. --Pat (talk) 03:07, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] June Wikipedian Meetup across the Hudson

New York City Meetup


Next: Sunday June 1st, Columbia University area
Last: 3/16/2008
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In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, elect a board of directors, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

We'll also review our recent Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wiki Week bonanza, being planned with Columbia University students for September or October.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

Also, check out our regional US Wikimedia chapters blog Wiki Northeast (and we're open to guest posts).--Pharos (talk) 02:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Nj Gov shutdown

The 2006 New Jersey State Government shutdown has a list of issues that need to be resolved before going to GA status. I was wondering if I could get someone to lead an initiative to work on the article. --ZeWrestler Talk 02:18, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I have expanded the Background section, added some new refs, and converted all of the references to cite templates. Those seemed to be the biggest items left from the last review. Please take a look and see how you think we are doing here. Jim Miller (talk) 22:11, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
As I said in the articles talk page, you've made some great changes. I've added a little to the lead, I think 2-3 sentences more should do the trick there before renomination. If anyone has anything they'd like to do to the article, feel free to do so. --ZeWrestler Talk 14:56, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
I've renominated the article for GA status.--ZeWrestler Talk 14:49, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kate Whitman

The above article has been nominated for deletion. You may participate in the discussion here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kate Whitman. Accurizer (talk) 14:42, 5 June 2008 (UTC)